Author: Luther Porter JacksonPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Southern Regional Council, Inc. Printed Materials
Author: Luther Porter JacksonPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Southern Regional Council, Inc
Author: Southern Regional Council, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 21
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Your Region's Resources
Author: George Peabody College for Teachers. Regional Materials ServicePublisher:
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Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Surveyor and Municipal and County Engineer
Author: The Surveyor and Municipal and County Engineer
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Category : Municipal engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Resources in Education
Author: Closer to Freedom
Author: Stephanie M. H. CampPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875767
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women. In her investigation of the movement of bodies, objects, and information, Camp extends our recognition of slave resistance into new arenas and reveals an important and hidden culture of opposition. Camp discusses the multiple dimensions to acts of resistance that might otherwise appear to be little more than fits of temper. She brings new depth to our understanding of the lives of enslaved women, whose bodies and homes were inevitably political arenas. Through Camp's insight, truancy becomes an act of pursuing personal privacy. Illegal parties ("frolics") become an expression of bodily freedom. And bondwomen who acquired printed abolitionist materials and posted them on the walls of their slave cabins (even if they could not read them) become the subtle agitators who inspire more overt acts. The culture of opposition created by enslaved women's acts of everyday resistance helped foment and sustain the more visible resistance of men in their individual acts of running away and in the collective action of slave revolts. Ultimately, Camp argues, the Civil War years saw revolutionary change that had been in the making for decades.
Civil Rights Digest
Author: Self-Taught
Author: Heather Andrea WilliamsPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807888974
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught traces the historical antecedents to freedpeople's intense desire to become literate and demonstrates how the visions of enslaved African Americans emerged into plans and action once slavery ended. Enslaved people, Williams contends, placed great value in the practical power of literacy, whether it was to enable them to read the Bible for themselves or to keep informed of the abolition movement and later the progress of the Civil War. Some slaves devised creative and subversive means to acquire literacy, and when slavery ended, they became the first teachers of other freedpeople. Soon overwhelmed by the demands for education, they called on northern missionaries to come to their aid. Williams argues that by teaching, building schools, supporting teachers, resisting violence, and claiming education as a civil right, African Americans transformed the face of education in the South to the great benefit of both black and white southerners.
Municipal Journal and Public Works Engineer
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Category : Municipal engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1268
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